Tennis does not allow any sideline coaching during play... cross country coaches cannot run along side their runners and coach. Golf coaches cannot say a word on the course. Wrestling is the only individual sport that allows coaching throughout the entire game.

I admit, I have been guilty of over coaching in the corner the past 25 years. I have probably yelled as loud as I can “don’t reach back, don’t reach back, Bridge, Bridge more than most. The funny thing is when I was a competitor I never heard anything. When i put my headgear on it was like putting my ear up to a sea shell—the gym was quiet! Funny side story of one of my favorite conversations ever with TJ Kerr at Cal State Bakersfield. The team joke was he always yelled at us to “ Do your move”, “ Do your move”. Some guys were not that good and I never saw them do a move and always watched intently to see if they had a move when he yelled it. We were wrestling Boise State in a dual at Boise and I was beating their Hwt about 7-2 with 30 seconds left and he started yelling at me to “Do my move”. So like any good fat HWT I went over under tie and push the guy over towards coach Kerr to talk to him letting him know “I don’t have anymore moves coach, only 20 seconds left, this is my move”. He actually laughed, turned red/purple and directed some kind of profanity at me after the match- you fat trucker with an F if I remember correctly.

Maybe wrestling specific ...I dont know maybe for all sports ...just wanted to see others' take on the situation. I was once told by the great Chuck Deter (Gering HS) and I quote..."Dont you think 90% of coaching is done at practice?

Illinois has a no coaching tournament called the Illinois Open or something like that. It is huge, we tried to copy it in San Clemente a few years ago and it was pretty cool but a really weird concept for youth coaches.

I don't know about coaching your wrestlers during a match but I have seen Steve Stewart (former Villa Park Coach) coach up a ton of refs on stalling calls and questionable calls. He always bought their ribs and frescas at Brian's, they would sometimes ref his matches with tooth picks hanging out of their mouth from picking the ribs out of their teeth.

Illinois has a no coaching tournament called the Illinois Open or something like that. It is huge, we tried to copy it in San Clemente a few years ago and it was pretty cool but a really weird concept for youth coaches.

I was at the SC tournament i thought the idea was really cool. It was strangely quite in the gym though as we (parents) in the stands were not sure what we could and couldn't yell in the form of encouragement.